The 1944 sequences in "Zero Hour" were scripted to be set circa 1942, but the visual effects team discovered – after some research – that this type of airplane could not be used in that setting. "We realized there were no P-51 Mustangs in 1942 San Francisco," explained Eden FX staff member Robert Bonchune. "But there would have been P-39-Airacobras and P-38s." Executive Producer Rick Berman decided to set the sequences two years later, so that the P-51s could be included. (Star Trek Magazine issue 118, p. 31)

Although the P-51 Mustangs in "Storm Front" are named as such in on-screen dialogue, they were not scripted to be named on-screen in the episode, as evidenced by the installment's final draft script; Mayweather instead identified them by stating, "Those are planes... with propellers."

For the month of April, in the Star Trek: Ships of the Line (2013) calendar, the painting "Time Bandits" by Alain Rivard depicted the moment when the shuttlepod was attacked by the Mustangs.